OGG Vorbis, what does it take to get the support?
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iPod Generation 4 Released
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Taken directly from apple's spec sheet for the new ipod:
-- Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV --
I mean what does it take for us to get the OGG support into iPod? For 3 generations of this machine, one major target audiance of "switch" campaing has been unix users. We, the guys who support and now have started to love the new apple have begged for this support into iPod.
4th generation. And still no support. Lots of feedback sent, even on the official apple forums and nothing. Not even an official explanation why not.
How many generations this will take?
For example, I have over 110GB of music and other audio recorded in OGG format, rendering iPod totally useless for me. I did a quick "hey, whats your status" in my local university and situation was the same. iPod feels, looks and sounds too good to be true, everyone of us wants one. Expect for one big but.. where in the hell is the inhouse OGG support.
I know the problems with ARM processor inside iPod and lack of integer based OGG coded, but now that there is one (tremor) (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/) and it's even in BSD license, I cant belive apple choose yet again to leave OGG support out of iPod.
Could someone please take a club and bash the ingorant iPod tech division to little pieces, since I and many like me, would pay huge sums for this support.
It could even be "silent" "no warranty" "not supported" type of deal, just could someone please answer why cant this one of the most advanced piece of modern consumer technology lack the most important feature..
Reason, you can never, ever trust slashdot or similar system for MD5 sums of software. Long-time slashdot user dosn't mean anything and all that trace stuff by FBI is total crap. I'll give you a trivial scenario.
Mister well know slashdotter was in university terminal and reading happy slashdot, posted few commnets. He looked his watch, "damn Im late for lecture". Stood up and run like hell to classroom.
Mister blackhat comes to the terminal. Gee, a open login. Trick time! Mozilla is out, excelent. Hack the mozzilla source code to send all the nice data to his cracked linux box someplace, somewhere. (Fast thing to do, about 30mins and you are done) Takes the md5 sum, posts it as "Hey, use gnutella, the real md5 sum is This!"
Then he fires up his gnutella server network, all supply his cracked version of Mozilla stuff and sits back waiting to get rootshell access to port x on several computers. He is untracable, some nice box someplace keeps all the data and he just picks interesting hosts to contact.
Never ever mod this kind of garbage up!
I personaly like this line "In the unlikely case that someone spent a year posting on slashdot and building up a reputation just so s/he could plant a trojan into the 1.0 release of mozilla" Like the slashdot password cant be stolen in several ways?
There is no way to justify posting MD5 sums out of the official site. Never-ever do it.
It sounds so strange to me when RMS states that "gnome is the only one that succeeded". He takes pleasure bashing KDE without a reason or what do you think about this quote from:
-snip-
I became aware of another desktop project based on a non-free library (**), and spoke to the community about the problem posed by that dependency. This inspired Miguel to launch our third desktop project, the one that succeeded: GNOME.
-snip-
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Taken directly from apple's spec sheet for the new ipod:
--
Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV
--
I mean what does it take for us to get the OGG support into iPod? For 3 generations of this machine, one major target audiance of "switch" campaing has been unix users. We, the guys who support and now have started to love the new apple have begged for this support into iPod.
4th generation. And still no support. Lots of feedback sent, even on the official apple forums and nothing. Not even an official explanation why not.
How many generations this will take?
For example, I have over 110GB of music and other audio recorded in OGG format, rendering iPod totally useless for me. I did a quick "hey, whats your status" in my local university and situation was the same. iPod feels, looks and sounds too good to be true, everyone of us wants one. Expect for one big but.. where in the hell is the inhouse OGG support.
I know the problems with ARM processor inside iPod and lack of integer based OGG coded, but now that there is one (tremor) (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/) and it's even in BSD license, I cant belive apple choose yet again to leave OGG support out of iPod.
Could someone please take a club and bash the ingorant iPod tech division to little pieces, since I and many like me, would pay huge sums for this support.
It could even be "silent" "no warranty" "not supported" type of deal, just could someone please answer why cant this one of the most advanced piece of modern consumer technology lack the most important feature..
OGG VORBIS - Support.
Never, ever listen to this kind of crap
Reason, you can never, ever trust slashdot or similar system for MD5 sums of software. Long-time slashdot user dosn't mean anything and all that trace stuff by FBI is total crap. I'll give you a trivial scenario.
Mister well know slashdotter was in university terminal and reading happy slashdot, posted few commnets. He looked his watch, "damn Im late for lecture". Stood up and run like hell to classroom.
Mister blackhat comes to the terminal. Gee, a open login. Trick time! Mozilla is out, excelent. Hack the mozzilla source code to send all the nice data to his cracked linux box someplace, somewhere. (Fast thing to do, about 30mins and you are done) Takes the md5 sum, posts it as "Hey, use gnutella, the real md5 sum is This!"
Then he fires up his gnutella server network, all supply his cracked version of Mozilla stuff and sits back waiting to get rootshell access to port x on several computers. He is untracable, some nice box someplace keeps all the data and he just picks interesting hosts to contact.
Never ever mod this kind of garbage up!
I personaly like this line "In the unlikely case that someone spent a year posting on slashdot and building up a reputation just so s/he could plant a trojan into the 1.0 release of mozilla" Like the slashdot password cant be stolen in several ways?
There is no way to justify posting MD5 sums out of the official site. Never-ever do it.
It sounds so strange to me when RMS states that "gnome is the only one that succeeded". He takes pleasure bashing KDE without a reason or what do you think about this quote from:
n ce /2001-November/msg00028.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-annou
-snip-
I became aware of another desktop project based on a non-free library (**), and spoke to the community about the problem posed by that dependency. This inspired Miguel to launch our third desktop project, the one that succeeded: GNOME.
-snip-